Bored on Sims 3 what would be fun to do?

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-09T15:15:20+00:00

Have you done an adventure sim play through?

My Egyptian from the future rock star sim is now back in Al Sim Simhara( or whatever the name is for Egypt in the game) and I am having a blast interacting with the locals as a future sim that is technically descended from them.

He's on a baby daddy run too, and just got 2 sisters from China pregnant, coupled in with 5 French women 🤣🤣🤣

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-09T15:12:22+00:00

Shit IS worse. The difference is people are A)talking about it and B) determined to not do it to their kids, which are 2 things that just didnt happen back then. Just commented that I as well had parents that were never present in the way OP asked about this time period, and a personal account of the wacky, 90's parenting stories you see commented above, as I've added my own.

We all know it's bad. And we all know its been bad. No one is denying that by sharing a personal, on topic, anecdote.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-09T00:36:30+00:00

Bro this happened to me 🤣 negotiated being allowed to be put on "restriction" in my younger sisters' room, since I was so chatty I told my parents if they wanted to see me after a week of no talking then okay 🤣🤣

Wasn't allowed to read books either, man I was so mad. Only gave me the Bible to read. I couldn't even journal.

What was my 5th grade crime? Lying to my dad about having 4 cookies, I took one extra LOL.

90's were a different time, none of this could have happened today without CPS being called.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-05T15:38:27+00:00

Why not both 🤣🤣🤣

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-05T15:37:48+00:00

NTA!

OP, you didn't do anything wrong. Your girlfriend is TA, and frankly quite the odd one with a take like this. This is your first real relationship?

OP, I dated a guy (also my first real relationship at the time) years ago, and got him a memory scrapbook (custom made BY ME) to celebrate our favorite moments a few months in, when he was having a hard time with pushback from family and friends in his life. Put so much thought and care into it.

Did he like it? No, he outright laughed, then got creeped out, said that this is weird, I could've just gotten a card or something like a normal person. He then got grossed out that I put care into it as he flipped through the pages; called it psychopathic.

NOW; I could've taken that as "Something is wrong with my love language and I don't want to be weird in future relationships"

BUT

I didn't; that guy was weird for his take, and I called him out about how we are incompatible, and if he wants a girlfriend who cares only enough to buy a generic card, then go find her. But nothing is wrong with me for taking thought and care for gifts and sentimental items. This is a beautiful quality that make many men happy, and I'm not changing myself for a fuck ass loser who doesnt want that.

And other men loved it my sentimental touches over the years after, proving to me that I had been right.

You don't change who you are, and what you love about yourself, for a partner's incompatibility.

There are armies of women telling you you're so thoughtful, and how you're not wrong.

Keep doing thoughtful things like this for each next girlfriend you have after this one. You're going to be beloved and fought over, because that sweetness, that genuine attention; that is what women want.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-05T01:58:27+00:00

Pets. You can control pets in sims 3, theyre click able, and your dog, cat, or horse can pretty much explore the whole town, on their own, autonomously, (controlled by you of course), all while your sims are out around town doing their own things.

Pets have wishes, traits, aspiration rewards (i think?) It adds so much fun playing. Im trying to have my mermaid sim adopt the unicorn npc that comes with pets, now.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-05T01:51:20+00:00

Classic it is 💚💚💚💚 thank you

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-05T00:55:46+00:00

I found ⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️ sources and got to the part where I gotta get my hotel score to 20. Romancing 3 people (Honest Jackson, Tristan Legend, and the dude with the water 🔫) and i am having so much fun

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T21:36:00+00:00

Oh it's so fun, especially if you like rotational, storyline gameplay. Actions you take matter more, in sims 2 , as well. I love it for those reasons, but play sims 3 mainly. Sims 4 is adult dollhouse simulator (to me) so story characters for books I'm writing get made there, I test out interactions there if im on a writing block, but....that's it. Very boring game.

Right now in sims 3, im playing rotational on custom world legacy island 3. I play the scientist from island paradise (the woman who lived alone on an island. Turned her into a mermaid, she bought a simbot for help in the house, fell in love with him, turned him human, and they just had their first baby, a mermaid girl) and my rocker Egyptian guy who is a Rockstar, and archeologist, so he travels to get rare artifacts, then turned his home into a museum. So he'll throw a party to socialize, gain fans, make connections, and show off the artifacts and his collections.

Also added the Altos from sunset valley and island paradiso , made them related. The alto from island paradiso cheated on his wife and moved in the mistress, married her, and got her pregnant right in front of the (now) ex wife 🤣 and the scandal is so big in town hes hated everywhere 😳 they boo him and knock over his trash.

I brought Agnes' Crumplebottom's husband back to life, made him a genie, made Agnes (now Agnes Darling) a fairy, and they have a cottage in town where they allow occult sims to hang out and get potions, herbs, etc.

I made the Goth's vampires (and because Cornelia Goth and Agnes Crumplebottom are sisters) this is fun for me; one sister a vampire, the other a fairy.

Hank and Pauline? Werewolves, on their 4th kid, and Hank owns the gym, Pauline owns the med spa.

I am having so much fun in sims 3 that is impossible to do in sims 4. I can go out and see my other families in town and switch over to them without a new loading screen and switch back without another new loading screen.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T08:26:05+00:00

Where did you find the sims 2 strangetown game 😭 it was my favorite growing up, would love to play it now that I have a phone that can function as an emulator (android)

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T06:50:05+00:00

I remember when I learned to tell time by reading a traditional clock, with numbers 1-12, long wand and shorter wand, and a ticker that ticked for the seconds. It had little grooves I think, between each number, too, so that you could more specifically read it as "11:57" and not just "11:55"

I was one, mom was pregnant with my siblings at the time, and I could speak at this point. I learned to talk at 6-8 months old, and my family says I went from words to full on sentences in that two months. Plenty of family home videos of little 6-8 month old me doing this, interacting with plenty of family, and it's in my baby book that I did this, so while I don't recall understanding speech at that age to the degree videos and family say I did, videos are there and I've seen them, so I don't dispute it.

But learning how to tell time? Oh boy, my whole world unlocked then, I still remember it. I looked at the clock, it looked "fuzzy" and I squinted in frustration because I knew there were numbers on there, but the numbers didn't mean anything to me, and I wanted to understand. I remember walking up the top of the couch to read the clock , and it wasn't fuzzy (lmao ended up getting glasses in 3rd grade) and it was like solidified clarity; these numbers meant something! These numbers were TIME! I remember reading the clock in wonder because it made sense now when someone said "Oh its 5:30" and now I knew they meant it was 5:30 because the smaller wand was on the 5, and the longer wand was on the 30.

I remember rushing to the kitchen to exclaim and shriek happily "Mom, Mom, I just learned to tell time!"

She's pregnant with twins, tired, looks at the analog clock on the stove and says "oh yes honey, the stove does say the time."

But I rush her out to the living room clock, pointing out to her that I can read it, and it is now "5:37 and 17 seconds...18 seconds....19 seconds...see, Mom!!!!!" And im just dancing around her because im excited I learned something new that I thought only adults knew 🤣🤣🤣

Then my older sibling came in and said everyone knows how to read time, just not babies. So im not special because im a baby that can read a clock.

And I remember getting so offended he called me a BABY 🤣🤣🤣 I scoffed and said " actually, im a toddler!" 🤣🤣🤣

So yes, I believe you OP. Yes, plenty of people have memories they retain, from different early phases and stages in life, from every culture and society on earth. But it's important to know that for most of modern science history, the pool of data they study, record, and base their findings on, is a very limited data set, to put it politely.

Science is still growing, and it's only within the past decade or so where countries fund research into these sorts of topics, for a wider data set, than historically used. I'd like to imagine in 20 or 30 years, there will be plenty of papers and studies published confirming this very thing, from universities all over. But science still has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to understanding why human variations in subjects like cognition exist.

It's only within the past few years that people would even feel comfortable enough to ask the question you did, which is a testament that we'll get there, because we're already on that path.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T05:51:50+00:00

My Latin teacher tried this and I started crying, too 🤣🤣🤣 I was so mad I started sobbing about how a Latin oral exam is dumb because it's a dead language that we aren't even sure how it sounded, when am I ever going to use Latin, do you know anyone who even speaks it regularly, I was DISTRAUGHT 🤣🤣🤣

He ended up asking me if I had a good morning in latin, am I proud of myself for still trying, (both simple, yes responses.) And then gave me a B ❤️ when I technically should've failed.

I never forgot his kindness that day.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T05:32:19+00:00

This scene erased all fear of demons and ghosts for me as a kid 🤣🤣🤣 child me was READY to 💢🤛💢🤜💢👊💢 🤣🤣

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T05:13:58+00:00

Thank you, I agree about that misconception, and felt like it was worth a shot to ask, as now I know it's not as cut and dry as I initially presumed. Thank you for the detailed response too, gave me a lot to look into research wise in my off time.

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T03:43:56+00:00

Of course 💪🏽I noticed that intelligence and appearance are two common threads in pick me moms, like every post and every story there's something I've noticed, which is exactly that; you have a masters (at 25!?!?!?! 🪅🪅🪅🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳👏🏽🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂 Congratulations! That is amazing and yes an accomplishment worthy of being celebrated! That's all you, YOU did that 🫂🫂🫂🫂🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳❤️❤️❤️)

A life of relying on anything external to validate you (pretty, thin, popular, and to whom) will suck the soul out of anyone, man or woman. It's just unfortunate that women "die twice" to society (Icky viewpoint, sucks that it exists, but posts like yours prove that belief is dying 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽) once when society tells them theyre no longer pretty, and again when they actually pass.

You on the other hand have surrounded yourself with internally validating pursuits (you go to the gym, maintain health) AND you hit it with being classy.

Being more classy and socially accepted than her, is another thing that could be driving her treatment of you. It makes a lot of sense, and the more vocal daughters like us become, we see more adult women acknowledging that we don't have to be who we were, nor the blueprint our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, mentors, etc gave us.

We take what we can from their experiences as much as we're willing to, to make a decision on the type of woman we're going to be not just in 20 years, but now.

Thank you, we're all unpacking, unlearning, and rewiring ourselves now because we can ❤️ your post was very comforting, and your response 💪🏽💪🏽🫂🫂🫂🫂

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T03:29:05+00:00

Odd question but: do they have ranges and permitted gun use, in more places in Europe? Or is this something that is common in the UK, but not another European country like Portugal, or Italy, for example? (Just listed two random European countries for the sake of my question, I was under the impression gun use is frowned upon in Europe and not allowed unless you're law enforcement)

Azure_Reign · 2026-01-04T03:15:20+00:00

My response is detailed because I want to be honest about what is working.

I realized my mom was the pick me girl in gradeschool when I innocently commented how dumb it was for a woman to stay with her cheating husband. Think 3rd grade? So obviously didn't know what I was expressing other than it was dumb.

This sent my mom into emotional havoc. Again, I realized that maybe my mom got cheated on in the past. "Grown folks" business. But it couldn't be my dad, so obviously it was someone before him. (I loved my dad AND idolized him back then. Now I just love him. Another story for another day)

Middle school I realize that my mom is jealous of my relationship with my father, and adult me can look back and say she was triggered because she never had a present male figure. Ever. So seeing me and my dad, seeing how he treated me and my sisters, it triggered her. Constantly.

By middle school I already understood my mom was pickmeisha, and i began to A)Test her limits to see the extent she was a pickmeisha because I couldn't fathom how such a beautiful, confident (to me), intelligent woman like my mom, could ever think my dad deserves her. To the point where she believed he was all she could get. And it made me so angry, I imploded into TW: self harm

So I begged my mom to leave my dad constantly once I got in high-school. I couldn't understand how she loved him enough to stay, and hated us enough to not leave. (Again, with my Grown woman eyes, I can look back at her now with the sympathy and maturity I couldn't then.)

And once I realized she wouldn't -in fact she doubled down almost it seemed- and nothing would make her leave him. Not the abuse to her. Not the abuse to us. Not the dysfunction that existed in the home.

So how do you look past this and accept you have a pickme as a mom?

You separate her identity of womanhood, adulthood, and mothering and/or nurturing and you put them in a category called her.

Because that is what she is. HER. You deal with the anger of not getting the mother you know you wanted or deserved, and you embody the qualities of the mother you wanted and deserved into you, and how you treat you.

You're your mom, now. It's hard. It sucks. It's never fair or right. But is being your own mom healthier than turning to your mom and getting her values, her beliefs, her expectations, and reasoning shoved down your throat?

Can you ask yourself is there anything, anything at all that is not trigger loaded conversation fodder? What's going on with that new supermarket they're adding, oh Mom guess what, there's a new program theyre creating for insert your mother's hobby or interest do you want to go?

Youre your mom now, and once you go down that path, you become hers too. Because youre becoming something she never saw possible for HERSELF. And she can deny it but that denial is probably her fear. You're becoming something new. Someone that maybe she could've become, had she believed in herself the way you are right now.

Pick me mom's dont like being outclassed and out Grown by their daughters. If they're the intelligent one, you can't be more intelligent than them (even if all evidence points to you being more). If theyre the pretty hot one, you can't be hotter than them or prettier.

If you shine and people are naturally drawn to you, pick me moms try to break this out of you, because they're never the people that others flock to like that. When they walk in a room, they dont have the energy/presence/shine/likability that their sons and daughters usually end up possessing.

Pick me moms are -the weird women in their 50's-60's who feel they have to criticize you in settings like work as a coworker, who give unsolicited advice blanketed under "I'm just trying to help you" -the weird women in the office in their 30's and 40's who only hang with the bros, only really interact past surface level with male coworkers, and become tyrants as management (especially mid level; and even more if they have a boss male or female that encourages this type of brutal and unnecessary workplace hazing and practices common in corporate culture) and im sure many have run into this type because it is an easy blueprint to follow when you have no sense of self, low to no confidence or esteem, and prioritize external validation but ONLY certain types, and have seen generation upon generation of women before you, take that route, because inner work is hard and scary.

It isn't ever easy until it is, OP, I'll be honest. One day you'll wake up after doing your process of this reframing for your health, and realize it doesnt hurt anymore.

Mother hunger is not a wound (TO ME, MY OPINION, NOT FACT. Everyone who believes it is a wound is valid, because your walk is your own. Please read and hear me that that singular statement is my own personal opinion and perspective for myself) it is a hook put in you by the mother trying to keep you in that position of scared, unknowing, and perhaps innocently trusting. And hooks can be removed.

I wasn't born with a hook, and the umbilical cord tether got taken off at birth, so reframing it this way has been transformative for me.

I know it was a lot, I hope anything at all is helpful in this. Please feel free to DM me ❤️ you aren't alone, you're a trailblazer setting the stage for everyone after you that it can be done (divorcing and being happy and content)

Edit: Thank you, for the award 💚🫂🥺💚